In Ubuntu, whoopsie is a daemon that is responsible for collecting error reports from apport and then sending that report to Canonical if the user agrees to this in the apport confirmation dialog.
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How are bugs classified as “by 12.04 standards”?
I have been checking the Ubuntu errors page, but in the legend I noticed that both 12.10 and 13.04 are listed twice. Once just Ubuntu 12.10, and another Ubuntu 12.10 (by 12.04 standards).
So what ...
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Why was whoopsie not disabled in stable 12.10?
I was wondering about this for quite a while.
I've been using ubuntu for quite a long time now, and I knew apport showed these "internal error detected" messages, without actually being noticably ...
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Why does whoopsie increasingly take more CPU?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I've been following whoopsie with the top program and noticed something strange.
In the afternoon the daemon process was only using up to 2% of CPU power.
But ...
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How to make apport always open a bug report page? [duplicate]
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How can I track a bug that caused a crash and was reported via apport / whoopsie?
Since I updated to 12.04 apport sends crash reports to the server silently without ...
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How can I copy the text of an unreportable error?
Occasionally I receive an error report from Ubuntu with the option to send in the details of the error. However, if the error was generated from a non-official package (local installation or PPA) I ...
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System showing Internal Problem
I have Dell Inspirion 1525 laptop. Some days back I installed the Open BVE train simulator game. That game didn't run on my lappy, it just showed blank screen. So I uninstalled it. Since then I'm ...
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How can I track a bug that caused a crash and was reported via apport / whoopsie?
It used to be that when a program crashed, especially when a user was using a pre-release of Ubuntu, apport could be used to open a bug report. The user could then track the bug, see if it affected ...
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What is the 'whoopsie' process and how can I remove it?
On one of my machines I have a process running called "whoopsie". I'm running 12.04 server and never specifically installed anything with this name.
Google seems to imply that it has something to ...
